If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat in the same way.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.
We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. They're more pure. They're more simple. They're not neurotic. Well, there are some neurotic dogs.
Instinct is the nose of the mind.